The next morning, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, officials briefed the press with the same tight expressions they had worn previously when they addressed the document that they had received.
"The investigations", they said, were nearly complete.
Documentation had been reviewed.
Statements had been taken, and a verdict would be announced soon.
It was the kind of word that kept timelines vague and tensions high.
Across social media, supporters from half a dozen rival clubs found rare common ground.
Threads swelled with speculation while some fans went further, openly hoping for punishment severe enough to break Arsenal F.C. at their peak.
The tone was less about procedure and more about fatigue.
Arsenal, they argued, had become unbearable.
Too dominant, too loud and too certain of themselves.
Izan's name appeared everywhere, clipped into edits, dissected frame by frame, praised and condemned in equal measure.
